Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_48 4:23
But the one by the slave was born according to the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_48 3:29
And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, heirs according to the promise.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_44 3:25
You are the sons of the prophets and of the covenant that God made with your forefathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed all the families of the earth will be blessed.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 4:13-18
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For the promise to Abraham or to his descendants that he would inherit the world was not through the law, but through the righteousness that comes by faith.
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If those who are of the law are heirs, faith is made empty and the promise is canceled.
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For the law produces wrath; but where there is no law, there is no transgression.
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This is why the promise is by faith, so that it may be according to grace, to guarantee it to all the descendants-- not only to those who are of the law, but also to those who are of Abraham's faith. He is the father of us all
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in God's sight. As it is written: I have made you the father of many nations. He believed in God, who gives life to the dead and calls things into existence that do not exist.
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Against hope, with hope he believed, so that he became the father of many nations, according to what had been spoken: So will your descendants be.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 9:8
That is, it is not the children by physical descent who are God's children, but the children of the promise are considered seed.
ZEFANIABIBLE_BIBLE_BOOK_NAME_45 9:9
For this is the statement of the promise: At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.